Chapter Summaries

Ryan gathered Dream Wizard knowledge in the Inheritance Maze, strengthening the Eye of Truth and accelerating his research. Meanwhile, Kaze Antun revealed the Antun Family’s alliance with Ryan over the Black Sun Medal and ordered Zack to get closer to him; Ryan then prepared to advance his Dream Return Meditation Method.

• Ryan reviewed Dream Wizard books in the Inheritance Maze and spent 2000 Umbral Points on Supernatural Knowledge, saving his free High-level selection for another visit.
• Kaze Antun revealed the Black Sun Medal to Hades and Zack and explained that the Antun Family had formed a temporary alliance with Ryan, with the families to share the medal’s benefits.
• Kaze ordered Zack to get closer to Ryan, while Zack reluctantly accepted the decision but remained determined to defeat him.
• Ryan returned to the Dream Illusion Tower and used the Eye of Truth to absorb his new knowledge, reducing the Flame Demon Wizardry Flow analysis to about twenty days and the Dream Return Meditation Method analysis to one day.
• The next day arrived, and Ryan was ready to break through with the Dream Return Meditation Method.

Ryan completed a major Dream Return Meditation Method breakthrough, strengthening his Spiritual Power and Particle Energy, then began preparing a Vampire King Vine and Gendas flesh fusion experiment. After a flash of insight about the Hounds of Gendas devouring one another, he saw a possible future path for the Dream Wizard system and Harak’s evolution.

• Ryan formed the sixth Advanced Wizard Rune, survived a Dream Interstice stabilized by a Dream Corner, and raised his Spiritual Power to 25.9 and Particle Energy to 22 units.
• Ryan examined the Inner Sea Space, then used the Water of Life Source to cultivate two Vampire King Vine flower-bud samples for a fusion experiment.
• Ryan injured the Hounds of Gendas with his Supernatural Spiritual Power and selected Lace’s Hound for the experiment.
• Ryan decapitated Lace’s Hound and realized that the Hounds’ heads might devour one another, revealing a possible way to create a portable Dream Corner through Harak’s Infinite Core.
• Ryan carried the Shadow Blade of Assassination toward the room holding the other Hounds of Gendas to pursue his new experiment.

A dying Blood Wizard failed to get a warning out of Skywing Wizard City, while Ryan pursued experiments and accepted a mission to investigate the death. After analyzing his Flame Demon Wizardry, Ryan began planning how to combine it with Dream Wizardry to overcome powerful enemies.

• A wounded Blood Wizard tried to reach Skywing Wizard City's gates, but darkness swallowed him before he could escape.
• Two conspirators discussed the failed warning and decided to report Krau's death as an accident.
• Ryan began a Consciousness Coexistence Experiment with the Hounds of Gendas and prepared a Vampire King Vine Sub-body for fusion with Gendas Flesh.
• Ryan accepted a mission to investigate Blood Wizard Krau's death in Skywing Wizard City, delaying his Quota Mission.
• After analyzing his Flame Demon Wizardry, Ryan conceived a way to combine the Flame Demon Domain with Dream Wizardry to reach enemies beyond his Bio-field.

Ryan accepted Mafi Bohan’s request to investigate Krau’s death and spent a month improving his combination wizardry. He set out for Skywing Wizard City with Zack Antun, who had been ordered to accompany him.

• Mafi Bohan told Ryan about Krau’s death and offered the Bohan Family’s collected valuables in exchange for an investigation.
• Ryan accepted the mission, promised to investigate Skywing Wizard City in a month, and took a Crimson Agate and a Void Stone as payment.
• Ryan used the Eye of Truth and a month of research to improve his Dual System wizardry, creating a combat style that fused Dream Wizardry and Fire Element Wizardry.
• Ryan prepared to investigate Krau’s death and planned to use Dream Wizardry to gather information from people’s dreams and consciousness.
• Ryan met Zack Antun at the Teleportation Tower, learned that Kaze Antun had ordered him to come along, and traveled with him to Skywing Wizard City.

Ryan Harak traveled to Skywing Wizard City to investigate Blood Wizard Krau’s death, which local officials claimed had already been resolved. After Murphy offered to help him review the records, Ryan discovered that the man was an impostor connected to an unknown area within the city.

• Ryan Harak and Zack Antun arrived at Skywing Wizard City on a Flying Griffin, and Zack denied being Ryan’s lackey before heading into the city alone.
• Ryan introduced himself to Enforcement Squad Captain Murphy as Arthur and said he had come to investigate Blood Wizard Krau’s death.
• Ryan noticed Murphy and several Enforcement Wizards reacted uneasily when he questioned the official account of Krau’s death.
• Murphy invited Ryan to a banquet, described Krau’s death as an accident, and offered to arrange a meeting at the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Ryan used his Truth-seeing Orb to examine Murphy and discovered that the man’s body and Spiritual Power were abnormal and connected to an unknown area within the city.

Ryan investigated the abnormal City Lord's Mansion and Enforcement Wizards while pretending to be a visiting wizard, then secretly appeared in Zack Antun's warded inn room. He warned Zack that the trouble in Skywing Wizard City was more serious than a threat to their own interests.

• Murphy mistook Ryan for a low-ranking wizard and left to arrange a quick resolution, while worrying about Krau and the wizard accompanying Ryan.
• Ryan walked through Skywing Wizard City, found no ordinary wizards showing the same abnormalities, and planned to investigate Krau's death and the strange officials after nightfall.
• Roden and Clinton kept Zack Antun under surveillance as he wandered the city, then watched him check into an inn.
• Zack Antun sensed the Enforcement Wizards were unnatural, warded his room against spying and intrusion, and wondered what his role was in following Ryan.
• Ryan suddenly appeared behind Zack despite the warded room, restrained him with his Bio-field, and said they were in big trouble.

Ryan used Intent Dream Observation to trace the darkness that killed Blood Wizard Krau to the City Lord's Mansion and suspected a powerful Black Wizard was hiding in Skywing Wizard City. As he resolved to leave and report his findings, Murphy arrived with several powerful Wizards to escort him to meet the City Lord.

• Ryan entered his Dream World and used Intent Dream Observation to view a Mortal Knight's dream and rewind events in Skywing Wizard City.
• Ryan saw Blood Wizard Krau at the city gates before Murphy and a woman emerged from the darkness and Krau was swallowed by it.
• Ryan traced the darkness to the innermost building of the City Lord's Mansion, where a pair of black eyes formed and caused his consciousness to vanish.
• Ryan suspected a powerful Black Wizard had replaced Wizards in the city, decided to leave the next day, and planned to recover the evidence Krau had left in the city gate's Blood Light.
• Murphy arrived with several powerful Wizard auras and announced that the City Lord had made time to meet Wizard Arthur, leaving Ryan to wonder if the darkness had noticed him.

Ryan used the Illusory Demon Domain to escape Skywing Wizard City while a Phantom Body went with Murphy to the City Lord’s Mansion. The Phantom Body entered the banquet under suspicion, where Roden and the gathered Wizards watched him closely.

• Murphy summoned Ryan to the City Lord’s Mansion, and Ryan agreed while suspecting that the Black Wizard was checking outsiders for signs of what had happened.
• Ryan sent a Phantom Body with Murphy and the Enforcement Wizards while his real body slipped away from the mansion.
• Ryan used the Illusory Demon Domain to evade the city wall’s detection, switch places with another Phantom Body, and leave Skywing Wizard City.
• Ryan headed toward the Primeval Forest as his consciousness entered a Phantom Body inside the city, which continued toward the banquet with Murphy.
• Roden greeted Phantom King Ryan at the City Lord’s Mansion and led him toward the banquet, where Wizards watched him closely.

Ryan attended a banquet hosted by City Lord Mashuk and discovered that the food was a Curse Medium meant to contaminate the guests. He recognized Mashuk as a disguised Black Wizard, who revealed a sphere filled with Soul Consciousness Fragments and demanded to know who had been spying on him.

• Roden led Ryan into a banquet hall where Zack Antun and other Headquarters Wizards had been brought under guard.
• Ryan and Zack secretly discussed their suspicions while the gathered Wizards waited tensely for the City Lord to arrive.
• Mashuk introduced himself, served the guests, and asked Ryan why he would not eat; Ryan claimed his face had been damaged in a Wizard experiment and could not be shown.
• Ryan used his Dream Senses to detect Curse Medium in the food and realized that Mashuk was the unknown Black Wizard disguised as a woman.
• Mashuk produced a black sphere filled with voices and demanded that the guests identify the person who had been spying on him, while Ryan recognized the sphere's research value.

Ryan remained at the banquet as Mashuk’s Black Core unleashed Whispers and triggered a chaotic clash among the Wizards. When Rellis revealed her Third-level Wizard Apprentice power and began releasing the Black Souls, Ryan used Illusory Body to evade her attention, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Mashuk’s Black Core spread Mental Pollution through the hall, and the Wizards’ Bio-fields and Wizardry erupted into a chaotic fight.
• Roden and the City Lord’s Mansion Wizards blocked the exits while Murphy led Enforcement Wizards in to arrest the Headquarters Wizards on suspicion of murder and theft.
• Zack Antun challenged Mashuk, who claimed the arrests were part of an investigation, while Rellis prepared to turn the captured Wizards into Black Souls.
• Rellis revealed her Third-level Wizard Apprentice strength and summoned Black Souls from the Black Core, forming the shadowy darkness that had enveloped the city.
• Ryan vanished into the Dream Interstice using Illusory Body as Zack Antun’s energy blast was swallowed by a pitch-black maw.

Ryan and Zack fought Rellis and her Black Souls during the banquet, but Rellis overwhelmed Zack’s puppets before Ryan wounded her with Heart’s Dream Fire. The chapter left Rellis with a hand through her heart, while Murphy denied betraying her and Ryan’s voice threatened him from behind.

• Rellis released the Black Souls from the Black Sphere, and they attacked the Wizards at the banquet, killing and possessing several Headquarters Wizards.
• Ryan used a Dream Seed to appear to die, then persuaded Zack to fight alongside him; Zack summoned a hundred Wizard Puppets, but Rellis immobilized and destroyed most of them.
• Ryan’s Heart’s Dream Fire burned Rellis and damaged her body, forcing her to extinguish the flames with Soul Power.
• Ryan revealed himself after Rellis was injured, then escaped her Curse Sorcery while Zack realized Ryan had used him as a decoy.
• Rellis ordered Murphy to kill Zack, but a pale hand pierced Rellis’s heart as Murphy insisted he had not betrayed her; Ryan’s voice warned Murphy not to move.

Ryan forced Rellis to negotiate after interrupting her attack on Zack Antun, and the two men drafted a Wizard Contract demanding their safety and substantial compensation. Rellis agreed to sign but added a secrecy condition, while both sides prepared hidden schemes; the chapter ended as the requested resources arrived and she began signing.

• Ryan appeared behind Murphy and used the Dream Seed planted in him to redirect the wizardry his Phantom Body had endured onto Rellis, forcing her to stop the attack.
• Rellis called the confrontation a misunderstanding and offered compensation, while Ryan and Zack Antun negotiated a Wizard Contract securing their safety and demanding Magic Stones and Supernatural Materials.
• Rellis reviewed the contract and insisted that Ryan and Zack never disclose the incident or report it to Umbral Expanse headquarters; Ryan agreed if she delivered the requested goods within ten minutes.
• Rellis sent Murphy and the Enforcement Wizards to retrieve the goods, while Roden and Murphy privately expressed their anger and prepared additional plans.
• Murphy and Roden delivered two Wizard Rings containing the requested items, and Rellis began signing the Wizard Contract as everyone watched.

Ryan and Zack Antun escaped Rellis after Ryan stole her Black Core and used the Illusory Demon Domain to flee Skywing Wizard City. As Rellis pursued them, Ryan recognized a possible connection between her and a buyer he had once met in Vast Sea Wizard City.

• Rellis signed the Wizard Contract, but Murphy and Roden attacked as she set down the Feather Pen, prompting her to unleash crushing Spiritual Power across the hall.
• Rellis crushed Ryan's Illusionary Body and pinned Zack Antun, Roden, Murphy, and the other Wizards while disrupting the Illusory Demon Domain.
• Ryan's hidden hand snatched Rellis's Black Core, and she destroyed the hall and pursued them as Dark Shadows swallowed the city.
• Ryan escaped with Zack by extending the Illusory Demon Domain through prepared Dream Seeds and hiding Zack inside the Flying Griffin.
• Phantom King Ryan delivered a black sphere containing fewer than a thousand Black Souls, and Ryan flew away as Rellis's Dark Shadows reached the city gate.
• Ryan recalled a buyer from Vast Sea Wizard City who resembled Rellis and wondered whether they both came from the Natural Ring Tower.

Ryan reported the truth about Blood Wizard Krau’s death to Wizard Canglan and gave the evidence to Mafi Bohan, confirming that a Natural Ring Tower Wizard had killed Krau. As snow began to fall, Gray pulled Ryan into another gathering to discuss the Wizard’s path.

• Rellis tracked Ryan with a harmless curse mark, identified him as Ryan Harak, and vowed to reclaim the Black Core while punishing the Black Souls.
• Ryan and Zack reached Umbral Expanse headquarters, where Wizard Canglan reviewed the evidence and said the mission’s rank and rewards would be addressed; he also explained the requirements for promotion to Umbral Walker.
• The Umbral Expanse dispatched three Limit Wizard Apprentices to investigate Skywing Wizard City and deal with the Natural Ring Tower Wizard.
• Ryan gave Mafi Bohan the Truth-seeing Orb’s evidence, revealing that a Wizard from the Natural Ring Tower had killed Blood Wizard Krau, and left the grieving old man alone with it.
• Ryan walked through the snowy streets, then went to the Night Night Night tavern after Gray gathered people for another exchange about the Wizard’s path.

Ryan celebrated the New Year with Gray, Masque, and Mona, then returned to his laboratory to monitor Harak and continue his experiments. He began analyzing Hephaestus's Wrath, and ten days later the Umbral Expanse headquarters updated his Wizard Mission.

• Ryan celebrated with Gray, Masque, and Mona, and noticed that Gray's Spiritual Power had risen unusually quickly.
• Ryan checked Harak, whose transformation was expected to finish in four days, and planned to unseal and analyze the Black Core with Teacher Dream's protection.
• Ryan reviewed the successful Consciousness Coexistence Experiment and considered applying its results to Harak and the Dream Infinite Genome.
• Ryan combined Harak's flesh with the Hound of Gendas's remains and poured the mixture into a Vampire King Vine Sub-body's Incubation Chamber.
• Ryan began analyzing the High-grade Wizardry Hephaestus's Wrath, while estimating that the seventh Wizard Rune would take about sixty days to analyze.
• Ten days later, Ryan received notice that the Umbral Expanse headquarters had updated his Wizard Mission.

Ryan received rewards for exposing Rellis’s seizure of Skywing Wizard City, then brought her Black Core to the Dream Wizard to investigate it. Rellis’s attempt to curse Ryan backfired when she discovered an official wizard was present, and she plotted to turn Ryan’s growing reputation against him.

• The Umbral Expanse raised Ryan’s mission to A-rank and awarded him Magic Stones, Umbral Points, and a chance to select advanced knowledge.
• Zack Antun complained about his losses, but Kaze Antun gave him resources and ordered him to keep supporting Ryan, promising him a chance to enter the Rhine School.
• Ryan named his Dream Wizardry the Nightmare Dream Wizardry Flow and took Rellis’s Black Core to the Dream Wizard for analysis.
• The Dream Wizard unsealed the Black Core, and the released Black Souls attacked him and Ryan.
• Rellis used a Black Soul’s eye to prepare a curse against Ryan, but the Dream Wizard noticed her and spoke to her through the viewpoint.
• Rellis cut off the connection by destroying the eye, then decided to spread word of Ryan’s strength to redirect scrutiny from her failure.

Ryan completed his Seventh Wizard Rune, strengthened his abilities, and received a C-rank mission to investigate a suspected man-eating witch in the Black Soil Kingdom. As he traveled toward the kingdom, the revelation that a Natural Ring Tower wizard had infiltrated Skywing Wizard City stirred alarm and investigations among the Umbral Expanse’s Family leaders.

• The Dream Wizard captured the fleeing Black Souls, gave their Black Core to Ryan, and returned to the Dream World.
• Ryan completed his Seventh Wizard Rune, raised his attributes, and began analyzing the Eighth Rune while planning improvements to his wizardry flows.
• Harak finished her transformation, reached the High-level Supernatural Creature stage, and gained the ability to infect people with Supernatural Creature Gene Fragments.
• Ryan received the C-rank Witch’s Secret mission, traveled to Mountain Water Wizard City, and set off for the Black Soil Kingdom with Harak transformed into a Flying Griffin.
• Puni Stark, Occam Made, Kaze Antun, and other Family leaders discussed the Natural Ring Tower’s infiltration and the Umbral Expanse’s investigations into possible violations.

Ryan investigated the disappearances in the Black Forest and discovered a damaged Wizard Array surrounding a suspected Wizard Ruin. He identified the attacking black-haired creature as an Actinomycete Vine and prepared to explore the ruin and claim the rare Magic Plant.

• Kui Di told Ryan that people had vanished in the Black Forest, including his eldest son Dawa and the knights who accompanied him.
• Bai Gang volunteered to guide Ryan into the Thorn Area, and Ryan accepted despite Kui Di's objections.
• Ryan sensed Wizard Array fluctuations in the mist, while the Knight Guard found Dawa's bloodstained armor.
• Black strands attacked the party, and Ryan unleashed a powerful blast that drove the attackers back and revealed a faceless, humanoid creature.
• Ryan's Eye of Truth identified the creature as an Actinomycete Vine, and he considered capturing it as research material before entering the Wizard Ruin.

Ryan defeated the Vine Black Death Vine and explored the Wizard Ruin, where he discovered a formal Wizard’s Particle Energy Research Manuscript. Meanwhile, Zack Antun resolved to pursue a risky puppet experiment, and Ryan left the ruin with new material to guide his own research into Special Particle Energy.

• Ryan burned the Vine Black Death Vine down to a small ball, secured it, and told Bai Gang and the Knight Guard that the danger had passed.
• Ryan entered the Thorn Area’s Wizard Ruin and found that its damaged array had let the mist and the Vine Black Death Vine spread beyond the ruins.
• At a Salon Meeting, Rod Stark and the other young Wizards discussed the fallout from Ryan Harak’s actions and his strength against Rellis.
• Zack Antun vowed to catch up with Ryan and decided to experiment with a Composite Puppet as his main body.
• Ryan searched the ruin’s building and found preserved research papers and a sheepskin scroll containing a Particle Energy Research Manuscript written by a formal Wizard.
• Ryan preserved the papers and manuscript, intending to use them as guidance while developing his own Special Particle Energy.

Ryan returned from the Black Soil Kingdom with the Wind Shadow Particle Energy Manuscript and began a long-term plan for his Wizard experiments, unaware that rumors against him were spreading. Wizard Dream revealed that the rumors were part of a broader upheaval tied to the secret Insight Plan, while Wizard Kelan resolved to intervene if Ryan faced real danger.

• Ryan discovered that the Wind Shadow Particle Energy Manuscript held exceptional value and considered adapting its properties for his Fire Element Particle Energy.
• The old king of the Black Soil Kingdom thanked Ryan as he departed, and Ryan returned to the Umbral Expanse to complete his Quota Mission and collect resources.
• Rumors and slander about Ryan spread, while Mona, Masque, and Gray recognized the campaign as suspicious; Kaze Antun explained to Zack Antun that disgruntled Wizards were reacting to losing their positions.
• Ryan shut off messages and immersed himself in a detailed schedule of Wizard experiments, unaware that the rumors were growing louder.
• Wizard Dream told Wizard Kelan that the slander was a small skirmish and disclosed that she and Wizard Umbraly Light had created the secret Insight Plan to investigate rule-breakers throughout the Umbral Expanse.
• Wizard Kelan left Heart Dream Lake determined to protect Ryan if the pressure turned into real danger.